Atal Bihari Vajpayee Quotes

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Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Profession : Statesman

Birth : December 25, 1924

Our aim should be to make India a global R&D hub.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

We need to convert the extraordinary goodwill between India and Russia into a thriving, visible, vigorous, and mutually beneficial economic relationship.

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If Advaniji did not want, I would never have been Prime Minister.

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In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere.

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I am contesting elections since 1952, but never did I throw mud.

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In Indonesia, Malaysia, wherever Muslims are living, they don't want to live in harmony.

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We used to fight with Pakistan with bombs. Now we are fighting with them on the playing ground.

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People want government to deliver - here and now.

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I would like that no citizen of the state feels alone and helpless. The entire nation is with them.

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Who can forget that in critical times of war in 1962, 1965 and 1971, Naga underground organisations did not fire on the Indian Army? They showed restraint.

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I believe India and Israel should focus on building bilateral relations on the basis of shared perspectives and commonalities between our two democracies. This has to be a forward-looking exercise rather than harking back to perceptions of the past.

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People who ask us when we will hold talks with Pakistan are perhaps not aware that over the last 55 years, every initiative for a dialogue with Pakistan has invariably come from India.

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The BJP decides its own policies.

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Creative universities are bedrock of every developed nation's S&T strategy.

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Let me make one thing clear. I have never considered mere survival in power as any achievement, just as I have never seen coming to power as an achievement in itself.

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The prime minister's office is not something that one enjoys.

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I believe the gun is no solution to problems.

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We believe that the United States and the rest of the international community can play a useful role by exerting influence on Pakistan to put a permanent and visible end to cross-border terrorism against India.

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The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor.

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Our objective should be to firmly deal with terrorism and its sponsors, financiers, and arms suppliers. At the same time, our doors should always be open for processes which would restore peace, development, and progress to societies which have been devastated by terrorism over many generations.

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